French Literature Faculty

Guillaume Ansart
Associate Professor of French
gansartindiana.edu | (812) 855-9608 | Ballantine Hall 620
Interests: 18th-century literature and culture, especially the novel and political theory

Hall Bjørnstad
Assistant Professor of French
hallbjorindiana.edu | (812) 855-6596 | Ballantine Hall 618
Interests: 17th-century literature and culture, with emphasis on the relationship between literature, politics and philosophy

Brett Bowles
Associate Professor of French
bowlesbindiana.edu | (812) 855-5458 | Ballantine Hall 628
Interests: 20th-century French cultural history; film studies; cinema, society, and politics during the Popular Front and Vichy; literature and ideology

Alison Calhoun
Assistant Professor of French
abcalhouindiana.edu | (812) 856-6731 | Ballantine Hall 535
Interests: Early Modern French Drama (theater, opera, ballet, festivals); Intellectual and cultural history of the French Renaissance; Relationship between music and literature

Margaret Gray
Associate Professor of French
megrayindiana.edu | (812) 855-7884 | Ballantine Hall 629
Interests: The 20th-century French and francophone novel in its sociocultural context, narrative dynamics, reading practices

Eileen Julien
Professor of French
ejulienindiana.edu | (812) 855-7537 | Ballantine Hall 903
Interests: 20th-century literature and culture, especially the novel, postcolonial theory, and the literatures of Africa, the African diaspora

Eric MacPhail
Professor of French
Director of Undergraduate Studies, French
macphaiindiana.edu | (812) 855-8948 | Ballantine Hall 616
Interests: Renaissance literature, humanism, rhetoric

Jacques Merceron
Professor of French
jmerceroindiana.edu | (812) 855-4336 | Ballantine Hall 604
Interests: French medieval studies, French folklore and mythology

Emanuel Mickel
Professor of French
mickelindiana.edu | (812) 855-8253 | Ballantine Hall 621
Interests: Medieval romance, The Rose, allegory and persona in European literature, 19th-century literature, classic tradition, ekphrastic writings and painting

Aiko Okamoto-MacPhail
Lecturer (Part-Time) of French
macphailindiana.edu | (812) 855-2514 | Ballantine Hall 619
Interests: 19th-century French literature, Symbolist poetry in particular, and 20th-century French philosophy and Poetics

Oana Panaïté
Associate Professor of French
Director of Graduate Studies, French Literature
opanaiteindiana.edu | (812) 855-1134 | Ballantine Hall 627
Interests: Literary history, theory and esthetics, French and francophone fiction, contemporary studies, writing and politics

Sonya Stephens
Professor of French
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
sonstephindiana.edu | (812) 855-8783 | Maxwell Hall 100
Interests: 19th-century French literature and culture, literary criticism and theory, literature and the visual arts

Nicolas Valazza
Assistant Professor of French
nvalazzaindiana.edu | (812) 855-5764 | Ballantine Hall 624
Interests: 19th century French literature; relationship between painting and literature; history of esthetic forms; art theory of the Italian Renaissance; Clandestine literature